Leon Gautier was one of 177 French green berets who stormed the Normandy beaches defended by Hitler's forces in 1944.
abc.net.au/news/france-last-surviving-d-day-commando-dies-aged-100/102557254Leon Gautier, who was the last surviving member of the French commando unit that waded ashore on D-Day alongside allied troops to begin the liberation of France, has died aged 100.Leon Gautier was one of 177 French green berets who stormed the Normandy beaches in 1944In 2019 Gautier said war was "misery"
Last month, Gautier presented a student marine commando with his green beret at a passing out parade at Colleville-Montgomery, near where he had landed on Sword Beach in a hail of enemy fire at the age of 21. Gautier spoke to Reuters news agency in 2019 at his house several hundred metres from the remnants of a German bunker he and comrades from theLeon Gautier at a ceremony in memory of marines and the famed Kieffer commandos in 2019.
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